Stephen A. Hurlbut

Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (29 November 1815-27 March 1882) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R) from Illinois' 4th congressional district from 4 March 1873 to 3 March 1877, succeeding John B. Hawley and preceding William Lathrop, and a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Stephen Augustus Hurlbut was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1815, and he became a lawyer in 1837. He served in the US Army during the war against the Seminole in Florida, and he would return to practicing law in 1845, moving to Belvidere, Illinois. In 1847, he was a US Whig Party to the state's constitutional convention, and he was a Whig elector in the 1848 presidential election. In 1860, he campaigned for Republican Party presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, and he became a Brigadier-General when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. On 17 September 1862, he was promoted to Major-General, having fought at Shiloh and Corinth. Hurlbut became commander of the XVI Corps in Memphis, Tennessee, where he ordered the confiscation of Jewish property and barred Jews from trading. In 1864, he replaced Nathaniel P. Banks as commander of the Department of the Gulf, and he was suspected of embezzlement. In June 1865, he was allowed to resign, and he would serve as ambassador to Colombia, a member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois, ambassador to Chile, and ambassador to Peru, dying in Lima, Peru in 1882 at the age of 66.